“To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.”

The new synthetic cell carries a line from James Joyce’s, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Inscribed in its DNA as a watermark, “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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Adventures in Synthetic Biology

“So this is what we change to reprogram this critter? LOOKS EASY!”

A comic twist on some current events. AiSB.vol1.pdf

Adventures in Synthetic Biology by [...]

Evolutionary Art Competition

You have to be a GECCO participant but this is an interesting competition that blends art, science and technology: Evolutionary [...]

art & science for activists' sake: Open Data Kit, data collection and a new mobility

Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation. – Wikipedia

Citizen Science Projects is a great blog on the topic and fascinating projects taking place around [...]

hacking biology and 3D printing (BBC video and article)

“Hacking and making is no longer just about hardward and software, increasingly it is about wetware – that’s biology to the uninitiated.”

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Bacteria that glows in the dark can be cultivated using materials bought [...]

“Ouroboros: The History of the Universe”

“Ouroboros: The History of the Universe”  (at the Ise Cultural Foundation in SoHo) was created by Ali Hossaini, a biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet, and a pair of video artists and programmers, Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy, a k a Sweatshoppe, who devised the 3-D effects.

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Where Art & Science Meet

BB Advisory Board member Jenny Sabin‘s work is featured on the Cover of The American Journal of Pathology:

Detail of “Ground Substance,” a 3-D fabricated model

Detail of “Ground Substance,” a 3-D fabricated model composed of 146 3-D printed parts interconnected via aluminum rods and cable threads. This geometrically-derived printed model illustrates the complexity of cell-cell and [...]

RETHINK

Denmark plays host to two events: the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 and RETHINK: Contemporary Art & Climate Change project

“I think one of the interesting new developments is a generation of artists that is now collecting data about their world using scientific instruments, but for their cultural purposes. Not only are they making powerful art, [...]